Episode Info
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Episode number: 2x19 Production Number: 34308 Airdate: Wednesday October 27th, 1971 |
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Recap
A mercenary, Colonel Denny Malloy, is playing billiards at his club as Dr. Mazi, a white-haired older man, tells the other club members about the night he slept in a haunted house he purchased as part of a wager. As Mazi describes it, he blanked out and his friends found him at midnight, wandering the nearby road. Mazi’s hair had turned white, and he spent three years in an asylum receiving treatment. Malloy calls him a coward and Mazi asks if he knows fear. The mercenary says that he’s fought in dozens of wars and had men shot for cowardice, and doesn’t know fear. Mazi offers him $10,000 to spend one night in the haunted house without being frightened to death. Another club member raises the stakes to $15,000, and Malloy confidently accepts...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Based on the short story "A Question of Fear" by Bryan Lewis.
Episode Quotes
Host: Time again for your weekly excursion into the cultural. Paintings, statuary, still lifes, collages, some abstracts, and some items in ice. That's not the technique. That, hopefully, is what we turn your blood into. A good way to begin the attempt, painting number one, about a man who spends a night in a haunted house. An unbeliever, if you will, who, by dawn, believes. The name of the painting is A Question of Fear. The name of this place is the Night Gallery.
Colonel Denny Malloy: Interesting color, white. I've often wondered why they call cowards yellow, when it's the white flag they use to surrender.
Dr. Mazi: Recently, my colleague and I discovered a way of converting a complex enzyme molecule in the human body until its structure is identical with that of an annelid. Better known to you as an earthworm.
Colonel Denny Malloy: That's terrific, I'm delighted for you.
Dr. Mazi: The result is quite extraordinary . The bones of the body disintegrate without affecting the nervous system or the vital organs until the victim is, as near as can be, an earthworm.
Colonel Denny Malloy: You're out of your mind, man, that's impossible.
Dr. Mazi: Really? Then I suggest you pay another visit to the cellar. There you will see now my colleague. He's quite harmless - only rather repulsive.
Colonel Denny Malloy: That's terrific, I'm delighted for you.
Dr. Mazi: The result is quite extraordinary . The bones of the body disintegrate without affecting the nervous system or the vital organs until the victim is, as near as can be, an earthworm.
Colonel Denny Malloy: You're out of your mind, man, that's impossible.
Dr. Mazi: Really? Then I suggest you pay another visit to the cellar. There you will see now my colleague. He's quite harmless - only rather repulsive.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Producer | Jack Laird |
| • Music | Paul Glass |
| • Costume Designer | Bill Jobe |
| • Set Decorator | John M. Dwyer |
| • Director of Photography | Leonard J. South | Lionel Lindon |
| • Art Director | Joseph Alves, Jr. |
| • Main Title Design | Wayne Fitzgerald |
| • Film Editor | Sam Vitale | David Rawlins |
| • Sound | Roger A. Parish | David H. Moriarty (1) |
| • Assistant Director | Ralph Sariego | Lester William Berke |
| • Unit Manager | Burt Astor |
| • Executive Story Consultant | Gerald Sanford |
| • Assistant To The Producer | Anthony Redman |
| • Editorial Supervisor | Richard Belding |
| • Theme Music | Gil Melle |
| • Gallery Paintings | Thomas J. Wright | Logan Elston | Phil Bandierle |
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